The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. I.—Brocade woven in red and olive green silks and goldthread on a cream-coloured ground. Along the top is the Kuficinscription Arrahman (The Merciful) several times repeated inolive green on a gold-thread ground. Pairs of seated animals,addorsed regardant, and geese ms-a-vis are worked within the lozenge-shaped compartments of the trellis framework which regulates thepattern. Both animals and birds are separated by conventionaltrees, and the latter are enclosed in inscriptions of Kufic chjirac
The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. I.—Brocade woven in red and olive green silks and goldthread on a cream-coloured ground. Along the top is the Kuficinscription Arrahman (The Merciful) several times repeated inolive green on a gold-thread ground. Pairs of seated animals,addorsed regardant, and geese ms-a-vis are worked within the lozenge-shaped compartments of the trellis framework which regulates thepattern. Both animals and birds are separated by conventionaltrees, and the latter are enclosed in inscriptions of Kufic ; nth or 12th century. 5i in. sq. brocato, the Spanish brocar and the French brocarts and brocher,and implies a form of stitching or broaching, so that textilefabrics woven with an appearance of stitching or broaching haveconsequently come to be termed
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